Methodist Hospital surgery is 1st in Indiana to use high-tech Google Glass

1:54 PM,
Mar. 9, 2014

Written by

Shari Rudavsky
shari.rudavsky@indystar.com

All surgeon Paul Szotek wanted to find was an optometrist for his wife when he typed "glasses" into the Google search engine about a year ago. He wound up finding a whole new surgical tool: Google Glass.

Last month, Szotek - an IU Health trauma surgeon who specializes in hernia repair and abdominal wall reconstruction - performed the first surgery in Indiana with the assistance of the state-of-the-art wearable computer that costs $1,500 and is available on a limited basis.

With the space-age device perched on his face, Szotek performed a four-hour surgery Feb. 4 to remove a recalcitrant tumor ...